Time zones of Europe:

blue	Western European Time (UTC+0) Western European Summer Time (UTC+01:00)
light blue	Western European Time (UTC+0)
red	Central European Time (UTC+01:00) Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00)
yellow	Eastern European Time (UTC+02:00) Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00)
orange	Kaliningrad Time (UTC+03:00)
green	Moscow Time (UTC+04:00)

Light colours indicate countries that do not observe summer time: Algeria, Iceland, Russia and Tunisia.

Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) is one of the names of UTC+3 time zone, 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used as a summer daylight saving time in some European, North African, and Middle Eastern countries. During the winter, Eastern European Time (UTC+2) is used.

Since 1996 European Summer Time has been observed from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October; previously the rules were not uniform across the European Union.

Usage

The following countries and territories use Eastern European Summer Time during the summer:

• Belarus, in years 1981–89 Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1991
• Bulgaria, regularly since 1979
• Cyprus, regularly since 1979
• Estonia, in years 1981–88 Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1989
• Finland, regularly since 1981
• Greece, regularly since 1975
• Israel, regularly since 1948
• Jordan, since 1985
• Latvia, in years 1981–88 Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1989
• Lebanon, since 1984
• Lithuania, in years 1981–88 Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1989, in years 1998 was changed to Central European Summer Time, but returned to EEST since 2003
• Moldova, in years 1932–40, 1981–89 Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1991
• Romania, in years 1932–40, regularly since 1979
• Russia (Kaliningrad), in years 1981–90 Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1991, as standard time from March 2011.
• Syria, since 1983
• Turkey, in years 1970-78 EEST, in years 1979–83 as in Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1985
• Ukraine, in years 1981–89 Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1992

In one year 1991 EEST was used also in Moscow and Samara time zones of Russia.

See also

• European Summer Time
• UTC+3